The High Sheriff of Dublin, Mr. Bryan, gave his first
public dinner, at Alotrisson's Hotel, on Wednesday evening. It was of course no
tiOrange-Tory display. Mr. Recorder Shaw was present, and deli- vered an uncompromising speech, which is worthy notice, as Mr. Shaw has just returned from an interview with Lord Lyndhurst at Paris. Since their last meeting, said Mr. Shaw, there had elapsed what might be considered the vacation or holvdays of politicians: during that period, no doubt, their political opponents, the trading agitators of the country, had ex- ceeded themselves in the extravagance of their gambols; but he trusted he roight say on the other side, that true Conservatives had not only vastly in- creased in numbers, but that their gathering strength and manly gtowth since they had last met in relaxation from their public labours, must be manifest to the most ordinary observation. Within that period he had visited a country
which was 'sufficient to cool the most ardent Radicalism. It WAS a living, and he hoped not an unprofitable picture of the condition which wises from a false philosophy, from the inordinate loved change, and a morbid appetite for sub- version, too mach the characteristics of the present day. After some declamation about the want of real liberty in France, ima: thus continued- " With regard to themselves, they were on the eve of a session which pea. mised to be fraught with events of vital importance to their best and dearest
interests. Their fiiends in England were full of spirits and of energy. '1 hen leadcrs, lie was persuaded, would be, as they were before, ready to correct any proved abuse, and redress every real grievance ; they would make any is• able concessions in order to pi-wince harmony, and unite, to the tatmod, teal friends of our ancient institutions ; but he was convinced that neither I.., the sake of adherents, of place, of power, or for any other consideration, is they consent to the compromise of a single principle; as an illustratilln of %,1•;...il he was confident they; would not consent to the alineation of one go Cloirch property to other than ecclesiastical purpoae!, nor 1/11111it the t Fl!:•!C ut ti use Corporations establisher; fur the support of the Protestant religie:: a .!..5 English connection in this count: y, to the hand% of their bitterest oppo, nor to the legalization of Roman Catholic associations in ally Corporate •• in Ireland. Aloreover, depend upon it. there Wag froni the siceessity •• I • case a growing determination on the part 'of the people of Great Brit lir.- - as well of s,..itland as of England—there was diffused floss's:Allow I.. countries a vs-gave truly British (that is, a resolve not quickly lIane• ' when roadveil invincible) that the property, the just right., ;tad ahoy .`, including all), the religi tttt itt the Proteatants of Ireland shou!•I :v.•• • with impunity. (Load and lang.eantinued elacring.) Let limit 1: .1 Catholic, and Protestants well lay this to heart, that if cret the en•loie; 1i and of British coonexinn—the combined forces if Radicalism awl I mi prey tiled in the overthrow of the Protestant established in ..! surely would it involve in its fall and cover ih its ruins the I ight: and 1:;.-1 civil as well as religions, of all classes of the people.
Mr. Hamilton, Mr. George Young's, 31.1'. for Dublia, sirthe similar strain.
" Thit.as 11,v... at 1, ng,th come to this, that we are now, at least, on , vero..• of the precipice, and the quest' tttt le, are we to be preeipit,tea ill queetion whielt will have to he decided ill the twst session of Vivi ineak It will be, whether it is the will of 11/4ovidence that England and this to be abandoned to a fieree democracy, OF whether she is to retain her • ameng the free mot happy all(' civilIzed ellaplreS of the world, fientlen.,..,,, it is said that his Majesty's 'Al Misters have abandoned the Church question, •'. at is to say, that they are to leave the clergy to the tender tneteiee of the llow far such a oatrse is consistent with political honour and lowi•sly, how far a set of men who .tcquit oflit.e, not by their wale' al 'whey, but specific measure, on a les011Iti,111 in relation to Church promo ty, afier wig that thl:y all. tIllabil• tO CAI ry that measure, can be juisti liii iii retainie • !' re:IIS of government, it will he for the country arc long to decide. pol itical honour is synonymous with !lemur in its usual awl common ace- thin, it is for those more versed in polities than tli in I am, to detertaint : 1.at
for my OWII part. I can .ay, I would cut iffuly I IAllt band sooner would cling to ollice ender Snell circiunstances. tientleinen, if the I '• Bill he abandoned, it is quite olivious that the ('lit poral ion Pill will l'ot • -. -
battle...ground of the next sas,ion. 31inisters latve alianlened tht•y felt its found dim tot teti eg beneath them, and they I ie.: t the other, thinking, pirlmtps, that it affords a more svooral,le :1. There were many other speeches delivered, but the above arc find reported.
A Conservative Election Fund Society has been established Dublin.
A party of 310 Orange Tories dined togetlamt. at (dina.flt, i:t t county. of Tyrone, on Thursday week ; the Marquis of .lbetaort, I chair. "-le speeches were as virulent in 1 du a-"foryisn: expected at such tut assembly. On the `'.:1111C dry, the Friendiy r: (Orangemen) of Bandon entertained their congenial AIembe:., Sergeant Jackson, at a "select party."
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